Reality Bites: In small-town India, love is a dirty word (Aired: August 2001)

PUBLISHED ON: May 15, 2013 | Duration: 22 min, 56 sec

Scratch the affluent, upwardly-mobile surface of Muzaffarnagar and Barkha Dutt finds life governed by caste rituals and orthodox customs. In a region where young couples in love are routinely and brutally murdered by their families, men speak of honour and pride and how they must kill those who dare defy both.